Dylans 10th Birthday...we spent the day jet skiing and then the evening having a bonfire, having a nerf war, eating hotdogs and making s'mores.....Tate was lucky enough to get to spend the night out in the tent with 5 ten year olds too......

Just a few pics of the girls having fun in the summer of 2009.......they dont always get along this well.

Okay first of all how old is this child, the one pic looks like an add for I-pod, and the other one with the red hot lips is a Marilyn Monroe pose....she spends lots of time taking pics of herself so I thought I might showcase some of her best work....enjoy.

HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY MACKENZIE!!!!!!!!

I finally am putting up my pictures from when my friends and I did the flying pig 10K, the lighter pic is from before the race and the darker is after. And the Golden Corral is where we went right after the race, of course.

TATE IS FINALLY HOME TO STAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Dagan had the opportunity to go see his best friend for the week, and so he is not with us here on Easter morning. How small and how quickly it seemed to happen that our family is this size.

I am so very behind on doing any blogging, but here is my attempt to catch up alittle. For spring break my friend Marta and I took the kids to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We took a short detour before that and stopped to see my niece Kristen at her new facility, she was so happy to see us I almost cried, she was grinning this funny little grin the whole time. She looks really great and seems very happy and staff seem to really love her. The Grays and the Robisons have been friends forever, Marta and I were pregnant together for several of our children, it is so hard to believe how grown up they are now.

Just some pics of the kids at the wedding....cousins and friends...and a pic of me and Devin.

So as odd and strange as it is my mom was remarried recently...I had a great time with my brothers though and seeing my niece and nephew which isnt often....my mom married a man named Mark and although it is odd they seem very happy. I love this picture of myself and my brother A.J. he and I are very close and the evening was alot of fun laughing and talking with him and his fiance Devin......

So my first born baby turned 17 today.....I am soooo old. The time has really flown by. There are days when I dont think I will make it through and that the time stands still and yet when I look back it seems like just yesterday when I would sit and dream of the day I would hold my first newborn in my arms. Looking back I almost cry and wish I had cherished it just alittle bit more....

The last morning before Tates plane left fot Iraq again.....do we look alive or what??? It was sad but not as sad as the first time. They are telling the soldiers that they will be home sometime in April.

So the first thing we did the day after Tate got home was go to Great Wolf Lodge together. Obviously from the pics this is an indoor water park. We had a ton of fun going down the slides and hanging out in the hot tubs. Look who is almost as tall as Tate now!!!!!!